Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Passion narratives (Gospels)
A report to Viceroy Conde de Revilla Gigedo regarding the situation in Pimeri´a Alta after the recent Pima Indian rebellion. Balthasar questions a report by Governor Diego Ortiz Parrilla and describes his fear for the safety of the missionaries.
Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio Giovanni, dalle Celle, ca. 1310-ca. 1396
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 759
Image Count:
416
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio (Bartholomaeus Pisanus O.P., 1262-1347), Summa de casibus conscientiae (Kaeppeli 436), also called Summa Bartolina, Pisana, Pisanella, Magistrutia), translated into Italian by Iohannes de Cellis (Giovanni dalle Celle, 1310-1394 or 1400). With a preface by the translator, explaining why he has abandoned the alphabetical organization of the original text.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Parchment over cardboard. Spine with three raised bands and handwritten title: “Somma / del / Maestruccio / MS.” Two white leather ties. Paper endleaves., Paragraph marks and headings in red. Space and guide letters for 3-line initials (4-line f. 1r, art. 1; 5-line f. 2r, art. 3), which have not been executed., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria with single-compartment a.
Subject (Name):
Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Concerning "Popery," the author writes, "We charge the prelaticall clergy with the popery to make them odious tho we know they are guilty of no such thing. Just as heretofore they called Images Mammetts and the adoration of Images Mammetry, that is Mahomet & Mahometry odious names, when all the world knows the Turks are forbidden Images by their Religion."
Description:
Binding: stitched, loose in Middle Hill boards., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Note in same hand on first page: "Out of a manuscript called the discourse of Mr. Selden lent by the Earl of Arlington to Sir Robert Jenkinson.", Pasted in: inside front cover, dealer's description of manuscript, "said by T. F. Fenwick to be in the hand of Edward Southwell, and perhaps copied by him as a boy before the first (posthumous) publication of the 'Table Talk' in 1689.", and Phillips, Ms. 10149.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649
Subject (Name):
Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk and Southwell, Edward,--1671-1730
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
f. 45v, 46r : Geometric symbols containing luna crests., f. 50r : ""Philosophisch balneum,"" distillation apparatus and furnace., f. 50v : ""Der Faule Heintze,"" a multilevel furnace, and f. 51r : ""Der Philosophische Offen,"" a cylindrical furnace, with chimney.
Description:
3 oversize folding pages with drawings and diagrams inserted after f. 227., On paper, Twelve illustrations., and Written by a single scribe in gothic, Fraktur and roman scripts.
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Prefaced by a dedication to Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Jenkes, signed by Selden's secretary Richard Milward, who "had the opportunity to hear his discourse twenty years together."
Description:
9 preliminary leaves, front and back, some lined but otherwise blank, not digitized., Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale., Binding: contemporary full leather., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Includes alphabetized table of contents.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Hale, Matthew,--Sir,--1609-1676, Lowther, Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale--Bookplate, Milward, Ri.--(Richard),--1609-1680, and Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
Journal of a Voyage of Discovery in the Pacific and Beering’s Straits : on board H.M.S. Blossom
Image Count:
27
Abstract:
The journal describes the 1825-28 voyage of the ship Blossom from Spithead, Isle of Wright to Cape Horn, Chile, the Society and Hawaiian islands, then Kamchatka and the Bering Sea. The ship went back by way of California, Hawaii, the Philipines, and China. The ship continues through Awats Bay, Bering Strait, to San Francisco, Mexico, Chile, around Cape Horn to Brazil, the Azores,and Spithead. Appendices include notes of Blossom’s other voyages, an Esquimaux vocabulary, and star and weather readings.
Description:
Blanks not included in pagination.
Subject (Geographic):
Pacific Ocean --Exploring expeditions
Subject (Name):
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856, Blossom (Ship), and Wolfe, James, 1807-1848
Subject (Topic):
Meteorological records--19th century, Northwest Passage, and Voyages around the world